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I think you're over-estimating how much Hackaday is worth. Maker Media went defunct in the last two years, and Hackaday hasn't capitalized on that audience, at
by throwaway89634 5y ago
I think you're over-estimating how much Hackaday is worth. Maker Media went defunct in the last two years, and Hackaday hasn't capitalized on that audience, at all. I believe the viewership has even gone down over that time. Thanks to the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of new and exciting projects, and Hackaday hasn't capitalized on that at all. Add into that hackster.io coming up in the last few years (as well as others), and there are so many lost opportunities that have passed by Hackaday.
I think you should rethink, "if this is heartbreaking for anyone who loves Hackaday". You don't love hackaday. You _loved_ hackaday. It was cool for a decade or so but the entire model of media of curated, edited content is obsolete and has been since the days of Digg, and especially now with other aggregators like reddit and HN.
If it dies, it dies. Don't make it a zombie.
- Causality1 5y agoI think that Hackaday's temporary obsession a few years ago with bullshit content and over-wrought artistry really hurt it with its core audience. I bet if you made a graph of Hackaday's daily pageviews and the average number of Vimeo links you'd see an inverse correlation. They chased trendiness too hard and never recovered.
- djmips 5y agoWhat were some examples of bs content and over-wrought artistry that they posted about. I don't say this to start a flame war or to come back at you, I genuinely would like to hear your opinion in more detail.
- Causality1 5y agoArticles like this. Note the comments ranging from confused to annoyed. https://hackaday.com/2014/06/12/ecstatic-computation-exploring-technoshamanism-with-virtual-reality/ https://hackaday.com/2014/06/12/ecstatic-computation-explori...
- noyesno 5y agoHacksters looks interesting. Are there any other sites you would recommend?
- tesseract 5y agoThe Hackaday comment section has long been one of my least favorite places on the internet, which is not exactly confidence-inspiring in terms of the site's prospects if reimagined as a community-driven aggregator. I always thought the curation was what enabled Hackaday to be so great in spite of that.